CAMP PENDLETON  Completion of a cloverleaf interchange at Camp Pendleton’s Main Gate is scheduled for mid-May. The project began during the construction of the Naval Hospital and is intended to improve traffic flow around the Main Gate with increased traffic from the new hospital, said Capt. Ryan Welsh, Public Affair’s Officer for the base.

The new bridge will make access easier from the hospital west to Camp Del Mar.

Traffic along Vandegrift Blvd will continue to be diverted to a temporary intersection that provides access to Camp Del Mar and Wire Mountain Housing until the Vandergrift Road Overpass along with cloverleaf on/off ramps is completed in May.

Completion was originally slated for last December, but was delayed because of bad soil conditions, underground utility conflicts and design changes to accommodate the base’s longest tactical vehicles in one particularly tight corner, Welsh said.